Those make poor imaging information carriers. They scatter too much instead of undergoing photo-electric absorption. They can be used but ~100 kVp xrays or ~20 keV photons work better.
Seeing the users that have Vista just make the rest of us realize that Vista is not the horror that somepeople seem to be.... people see "oh, it works well"...
There's a big difference between watching someone sleep on a bed of nails and trying it yourself. Those that try it, all have the same story.
The university where I work just took the step and upgraded 25 computer labs (30 computers each) from XP to Vista.
Public use workstations are the easiest thing to convert, but you still did not see all the pain and suffering that happened there. At my university, there was a big opening at the local library where a big pile of new Macs and other computers were rolled out. The local M$ Ambassadors were told to make a Vista display but were unable to make it work at all. Their continued efforts at the event was the best demo they could have given. All the rest of the systems were working and everyone else was enjoying the party. That's not something you want to have happen in the real world.
The compatibility problems are so bad for real work at companies that 44% of IT is abandoning M$. Those people know what they are doing and are under the gun to make things work. So far, they can't make Vista work and less than 2% have moved and they are almost all tiny businesses without the resources to do better. Only 13% of companies have real full migration planned and those companies are also tiny. If you are not going to see it in the workplace, why torture yourself with it when you could be doing your homework or having fun?
The solution, of course, is not to stick with seven year old software or wait another five years for M$ to sell you something equally bad. Business knows this and more are moving away from M$ than will stick with XP or less. 56% of companies are not moving away and 13% are moving to vista, which leaves 43% on XP or less. But it's worse than that because another 18% are going to make up their mind after testing. Of the options, dumping M$ is the favorite.
Can you tell me what doesn't work for you in Konqueror?
Sure I can and I hope that it helps. The text displays at the width of the image without a left margin and contains a number of characters that did not display for me. The first sentence reads, "It was time to buy my daughter a cheap Linux system to be used for schoolwork and playing flash games well," but the mdash printed as an annoying symbol instead of a dash. Looking again, I see that you have used a stylesheet so this should not be hard to clean up. Thanks for writing and fixing the review.
Now, would you answer my question? Did you really mean to tell the whole world, "F You"?
Microsoft could argue that if 95% of computers in the world run Windows, teaching kids Windows is quite valuable.
That's true, Bill Gates sees a lot of value in that. The rest of world does not.
In 1900, 95% of the world's lighting was by gas. Would it have been a good idea to teach everyone how to plumb natural gas and expect to use if forever?
It's not the monetary cost, it's the cost to your liberty that is at stake.
Yes, but it's always good to point out how expensive tyranny really is. The Huston police department spent a lot of money without public knowledge, and against the public interest. It needs to be shut down by pointing out that legitimate law enforcement resources are cheaper. This will leave the proponents arguing for the illegitimate uses. The advanced state of this project makes it look like the authorities don't need to argue or even ask before wasting public money on invasive new toys.
And once you've finished reading the article, ask yourself which candidates for local, state, and/or national office are promising that they'll stop this whole, Orwellian madness right in its tracks.
Ron Paul has promissed this, but GWB also promissed a smaller, less intrusive government. YMMV.
No real vendor support. Who is going to buy these things when they have to fix every single problem themselves?
No, the real problem is that the people who know the best answers to bullshit like that have foolishly promissed to keep their mouths shut while M$ and Intel continue their usual FUD barage. While most of the answers are apparent, the OLPC design and implementation team has been there and done the work like no one else has. Advocates of self restraint can point out that bashing a competitor is a waste of resources that can be better spent elsewhere, but this case shows that not spending those resources leaves you open to easy attack. OLPC by agreeing to not call the Classmate a turd has surrendered perception of the one real advantage they have, overwhelming technical superiority. OLPC needs to directly compare themselves to Classmate and make their case. It's good enough for developed world use... and that points to what may be an even more serious non compete agreement. People who shake hands with the devil always get burnt.
In May, Mr. Negroponte appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" and blasted Intel, suggesting it was trying to drive his nonprofit out of business.... Two months later, Intel announced it was joining One Laptop's board. The agreement included a "nondisparagement" clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each other, according to Mr. Negroponte.
but
He seems most frustrated with Intel, whose overseas sales force has trumpeted the Classmate over his laptop in Nigeria and Mongolia, using marketing materials that claim the Intel machine is superior. "These are not isolated examples," he said in a recent interview. "They are daily events."
Par for the Wintel course, self restraint is foolish because M$ and Intel will always pull every trick they can. When convicted monopolists urge you to hold back, listening to them is the worst thing you can do. Intel traded a few million dollars for what's going to millions of units in sales. That's too bad, because Windoze is the wrong OS for the job.
It's easy to see that the usual one size fits all Windoze is not useful to school children, especially those in the developing world. It's designed for US fortune 500 businesses and to satisfy the wants of the MAFIAA. It's dependent on a $400 "office" suite for the most basic of paper writing in English and it has little else. Native editing and authoring tools are pathetic, networking is designed for an office LAN and media tools are designed to extract money from rich US college students rather than to encourage creativity. Foreign language support in Windoze is pathetic, as you would expect from software that can't take corrections in the field. All of this can be said about M$'s latest and greatest OS. I'm scared of what they have to offer for $3. Any developing nation that wants to see what will happen to the Intel machine has only to look at what happens to the millions of used laptops the developed world disposes of daily in their backyard. Laptops being tossed out by the developed world are more powerful and have better software but could be used right now by developing nations for next to nothing. They are not used because they are not well suited to the task and Wintel laptops that make it to the developing world today are sent there as toxic waste. OLPC addressed all of these concerns in their design.
Copyright law means nothing as long as the big content digital restrictions conspiracy is allowed and protected by law. Technical restrictions prevent works from ever entering the public domain. The DMCA keeps people from distributing software that undoes these restrictions and so protects big content's illegal extension of copyright law. Big content's agreement itself is a form of racketeering that restricts competition by deciding who's content can be played. Restrictions should be outlawed and law enforcement resources should never be used to enforce them.
Way to try to justify your illegal activity, slashfags.
Not that you care about either, AC, but laws should follow morals, not the other way around. Copyright laws are the result of corruption and following them is often immoral. They prevent the free flow of information more important than pop songs anyone can hear on the radio anyway. If the US is still a functional democracy, these initiatives will be defeated and bad laws like the DMCA will be rolled back. As is usually the case, private privilege has led to vast public harm.
Copyright laws have gotten so bad that scientific and medical journals are restricted and hard to find. This is both against the author's intentions and a sever blow to the whole purpose of copyright law. Authors who publish seek the widest possible audience. They want anyone who's interested to have ready access to their findings and that's what publishing is supposed to be about. The purpose of US copyright and patent law expressed in the US Constitution is to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Any law that goes against that purpose requires a constitutional amendment. Again and again, prominent scientists and artist have stepped forward to complain.
You might not be responsible for that thread, but your are responsible for representing yourself as someone else and part of a harassment campaign against people who say things you or your employer don't like to hear. If you are doing it for yourself, you're an asshole. If you are doing for money, you are a whore. Either way, you're scum and should not be be trusted.
By the way, it's not working. Slashdot is still an entertaining and informative place, even for people like me.
You should do something better for a living like dishwashing. It pays better and would put you in touch with nicer people than your current employers and associates.
The willyhill account was made to harass BRLUG member Will Hill and Slashdot members Erris and Twitter. While I'd never censor the drivel offered by this troll, you can depend on none of it being true. As in the case of other imposters, I recommend that this post or similar disclaimer be willyhill's homepage. It's obvious that he's not the author of the page he points to currently.
The author does not like getting hate mail for violating the M$ party line. His response was to parody M$ double think.. It only causes distress in people who take M$ security seriously in the first place.
Things are a lot easier when you quit blaming the user and prescribing crazy rules of safety and simply move to an OS without the same kind of problems. The sooner people do this the sooner botnets will die.
Like most M$ statistics, this one is murky. I could read through the Eweek articles, M$DN knowledge base and all that or I could just take Dan Greer's opinion over that of an obnoxious troll who replies to nearly everything I write, calls me twitter and shows other signs of mental instability. I'll bet that after digging around I'll come to the same conclusion Dan did. He has no incentive to lie other than the punishment he will receive for telling the truth. Is he on your harassment list too now? It's pretty obvious that he's taken a lot of shit for the last year.
Sooner or later the consensus opinion will match my estimate of 100%. Articles like this one are a good sign of that. Windoze is a booby trap and anyone who uses it long enough will get nailed, even the "smart users" who never click on anything and hide behind "firewalls" that are actually embedded gnu/linux.
I guess it's late and I'm not thinking straight.
No, you know exactly what you are doing but it's not working.
This guy thinks someone who prefers secure connections is more likely to be pwned.
No, he thinks that blaming the user is a joke when even M$ admits 2/3s of their customers are 0wned. It's a joke. Do you really think he's suggesting vendors screw all the customers who say they want a secure connection? If so, you admit it's trivial and that it's not the user's fault. The joke is on people who wrote him hate mail for stating the obvious: Windoze is a security dissaster and large percentages, if not all of them, are part of key logging botnets. Only they will take the article's suggestion seriously.
The point is that if someone is willing to run malware once then they're most likely already infected and part of a botnet.
The point is that it's not the user's fault because it's trivial for web site operators to 0wn user machines. When M$ themselves estimate 2/3 of all machines are compromised, no rational person can continue to blame the user.
When you pull your head out of M$ propaganda you will understand what the author is saying. You don't get the joke because you are a victim of double think and believe things that glaringly contradict each other.
The author is responding to hate mail he got for challenging the M$ party line that only idiots get 0wned.
A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested 3/4ths.
He parodies the party line brilliantly by saying:
This parallels the real world where people who get venereal diseases tend to get more than one. The reason is simple, the infections computer or cellular are side effects of behavior and consistent behavior tends toward consistent results.
and then suggesting that vendors instantly 0wn anyone who says they want a secure connection. This is not a serious suggestion, it simply point out the absurdity of blaming the user for something others so easily and frequently do. Vendors are screwed and he knows it.
The author is also pointing out how insulting it is for M$ to continue to blame the user for M$ security problems. If M$ really believes this, they must also believe that 2/3rd of their customers are idiots who and have VD. Is there any other vendor on the planet that so casually insults their customers?
Amazingly enough, the general population still believes the M$ party line. I had this argument with a co-worker the other day. He so strongly believed that it's the user's fault that he could not accept estimates by Vint Cerf or Michael Dell as accurate. Stories of corporate network dissaster are similarly dissmissed as the fault of idiots at work. More amazing than the man's inability to take in new information was the temper tantrum he threw when calmly questioned and confronted with facts. M$'s own estimates will also bounce off his otherwise bright head because it would force him to conclude that there's either a 2/3rd chance that he's an idiot or worse - he's been wrong headed and vocal for years, which is the definition of an idiot. How does M$ build such loyalty while being so abusive? Windoze security is a oxymoron and it's time the public at large understood that.
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now use Gamma rays......
Those make poor imaging information carriers. They scatter too much instead of undergoing photo-electric absorption. They can be used but ~100 kVp xrays or ~20 keV photons work better.
Seeing the users that have Vista just make the rest of us realize that Vista is not the horror that somepeople seem to be. ... people see "oh, it works well" ...
There's a big difference between watching someone sleep on a bed of nails and trying it yourself. Those that try it, all have the same story.
The university where I work just took the step and upgraded 25 computer labs (30 computers each) from XP to Vista.
Public use workstations are the easiest thing to convert, but you still did not see all the pain and suffering that happened there. At my university, there was a big opening at the local library where a big pile of new Macs and other computers were rolled out. The local M$ Ambassadors were told to make a Vista display but were unable to make it work at all. Their continued efforts at the event was the best demo they could have given. All the rest of the systems were working and everyone else was enjoying the party. That's not something you want to have happen in the real world.
The compatibility problems are so bad for real work at companies that 44% of IT is abandoning M$. Those people know what they are doing and are under the gun to make things work. So far, they can't make Vista work and less than 2% have moved and they are almost all tiny businesses without the resources to do better. Only 13% of companies have real full migration planned and those companies are also tiny. If you are not going to see it in the workplace, why torture yourself with it when you could be doing your homework or having fun?
The solution, of course, is not to stick with seven year old software or wait another five years for M$ to sell you something equally bad. Business knows this and more are moving away from M$ than will stick with XP or less. 56% of companies are not moving away and 13% are moving to vista, which leaves 43% on XP or less. But it's worse than that because another 18% are going to make up their mind after testing. Of the options, dumping M$ is the favorite.
Can you tell me what doesn't work for you in Konqueror?
Sure I can and I hope that it helps. The text displays at the width of the image without a left margin and contains a number of characters that did not display for me. The first sentence reads, "It was time to buy my daughter a cheap Linux system to be used for schoolwork and playing flash games well," but the mdash printed as an annoying symbol instead of a dash. Looking again, I see that you have used a stylesheet so this should not be hard to clean up. Thanks for writing and fixing the review.
Now, would you answer my question? Did you really mean to tell the whole world, "F You"?
Others have done a better job.
Those other reviews are much nicer than this one. An article that does not work well with Konqueror is always a bad sign (Use Bluefish).
Another bad sign I noticed right away was that the dock's icons have been rearranged so that YouTube's icon and it's neighbor's spell out "F You", compared to normal. It's hard to say if this was intentional or not, because this one has that too. What an odd choice of screenshots to have as the one and only.
What, instead of forcing GMO's and patents on both local and foreign farmers? That would be welcome everywhere, perhaps in ways you don't expect.
Microsoft could argue that if 95% of computers in the world run Windows, teaching kids Windows is quite valuable.
That's true, Bill Gates sees a lot of value in that. The rest of world does not.
In 1900, 95% of the world's lighting was by gas. Would it have been a good idea to teach everyone how to plumb natural gas and expect to use if forever?
It's not the monetary cost, it's the cost to your liberty that is at stake.
Yes, but it's always good to point out how expensive tyranny really is. The Huston police department spent a lot of money without public knowledge, and against the public interest. It needs to be shut down by pointing out that legitimate law enforcement resources are cheaper. This will leave the proponents arguing for the illegitimate uses. The advanced state of this project makes it look like the authorities don't need to argue or even ask before wasting public money on invasive new toys.
And once you've finished reading the article, ask yourself which candidates for local, state, and/or national office are promising that they'll stop this whole, Orwellian madness right in its tracks.
Ron Paul has promissed this, but GWB also promissed a smaller, less intrusive government. YMMV.
No real vendor support. Who is going to buy these things when they have to fix every single problem themselves?
No, the real problem is that the people who know the best answers to bullshit like that have foolishly promissed to keep their mouths shut while M$ and Intel continue their usual FUD barage. While most of the answers are apparent, the OLPC design and implementation team has been there and done the work like no one else has. Advocates of self restraint can point out that bashing a competitor is a waste of resources that can be better spent elsewhere, but this case shows that not spending those resources leaves you open to easy attack. OLPC by agreeing to not call the Classmate a turd has surrendered perception of the one real advantage they have, overwhelming technical superiority. OLPC needs to directly compare themselves to Classmate and make their case. It's good enough for developed world use ... and that points to what may be an even more serious non compete agreement. People who shake hands with the devil always get burnt.
Behold "peace" with Intel and M$:
but
Par for the Wintel course, self restraint is foolish because M$ and Intel will always pull every trick they can. When convicted monopolists urge you to hold back, listening to them is the worst thing you can do. Intel traded a few million dollars for what's going to millions of units in sales. That's too bad, because Windoze is the wrong OS for the job.
It's easy to see that the usual one size fits all Windoze is not useful to school children, especially those in the developing world. It's designed for US fortune 500 businesses and to satisfy the wants of the MAFIAA. It's dependent on a $400 "office" suite for the most basic of paper writing in English and it has little else. Native editing and authoring tools are pathetic, networking is designed for an office LAN and media tools are designed to extract money from rich US college students rather than to encourage creativity. Foreign language support in Windoze is pathetic, as you would expect from software that can't take corrections in the field. All of this can be said about M$'s latest and greatest OS. I'm scared of what they have to offer for $3. Any developing nation that wants to see what will happen to the Intel machine has only to look at what happens to the millions of used laptops the developed world disposes of daily in their backyard. Laptops being tossed out by the developed world are more powerful and have better software but could be used right now by developing nations for next to nothing. They are not used because they are not well suited to the task and Wintel laptops that make it to the developing world today are sent there as toxic waste. OLPC addressed all of these concerns in their design.
Copyright law means nothing as long as the big content digital restrictions conspiracy is allowed and protected by law. Technical restrictions prevent works from ever entering the public domain. The DMCA keeps people from distributing software that undoes these restrictions and so protects big content's illegal extension of copyright law. Big content's agreement itself is a form of racketeering that restricts competition by deciding who's content can be played. Restrictions should be outlawed and law enforcement resources should never be used to enforce them.
Way to try to justify your illegal activity, slashfags.
Not that you care about either, AC, but laws should follow morals, not the other way around. Copyright laws are the result of corruption and following them is often immoral. They prevent the free flow of information more important than pop songs anyone can hear on the radio anyway. If the US is still a functional democracy, these initiatives will be defeated and bad laws like the DMCA will be rolled back. As is usually the case, private privilege has led to vast public harm.
Copyright laws have gotten so bad that scientific and medical journals are restricted and hard to find. This is both against the author's intentions and a sever blow to the whole purpose of copyright law. Authors who publish seek the widest possible audience. They want anyone who's interested to have ready access to their findings and that's what publishing is supposed to be about. The purpose of US copyright and patent law expressed in the US Constitution is to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Any law that goes against that purpose requires a constitutional amendment. Again and again, prominent scientists and artist have stepped forward to complain.
I think twitter just hung himself out to dry by posting this, because it confirms what everyone already knows.
No, it confirms that I'm either a BRLUG lurker or know how to use Google which is precisely nothing. Thanks for playing, have a nice day.
I sure as hell didn't write that.
You might not be responsible for that thread, but your are responsible for representing yourself as someone else and part of a harassment campaign against people who say things you or your employer don't like to hear. If you are doing it for yourself, you're an asshole. If you are doing for money, you are a whore. Either way, you're scum and should not be be trusted.
By the way, it's not working. Slashdot is still an entertaining and informative place, even for people like me.
You should do something better for a living like dishwashing. It pays better and would put you in touch with nicer people than your current employers and associates.
The article is a joke that makes fun of M$'s insulting "blame the user" attitude.
The willyhill account was made to harass BRLUG member Will Hill and Slashdot members Erris and Twitter. While I'd never censor the drivel offered by this troll, you can depend on none of it being true. As in the case of other imposters, I recommend that this post or similar disclaimer be willyhill's homepage. It's obvious that he's not the author of the page he points to currently.
I think you are just more harassment for BRLUG member Will Hill and Slashdot members Erris and twitter. Nothing you say should be trusted.
The author does not like getting hate mail for violating the M$ party line. His response was to parody M$ double think.. It only causes distress in people who take M$ security seriously in the first place.
Things are a lot easier when you quit blaming the user and prescribing crazy rules of safety and simply move to an OS without the same kind of problems. The sooner people do this the sooner botnets will die.
Like most M$ statistics, this one is murky. I could read through the Eweek articles, M$DN knowledge base and all that or I could just take Dan Greer's opinion over that of an obnoxious troll who replies to nearly everything I write, calls me twitter and shows other signs of mental instability. I'll bet that after digging around I'll come to the same conclusion Dan did. He has no incentive to lie other than the punishment he will receive for telling the truth. Is he on your harassment list too now? It's pretty obvious that he's taken a lot of shit for the last year.
As explained here, the 66% number is from M$. Vint Cerf and Michael Dell say 20 to 40%.
Sooner or later the consensus opinion will match my estimate of 100%. Articles like this one are a good sign of that. Windoze is a booby trap and anyone who uses it long enough will get nailed, even the "smart users" who never click on anything and hide behind "firewalls" that are actually embedded gnu/linux.
I guess it's late and I'm not thinking straight.
No, you know exactly what you are doing but it's not working.
The easiest way to shut you up is to ask you to prove one of your outrageous lies.
What, like Vint Cerf and Michael Dell saying between 20 and 40% of Windoze machines are part of a botnet?, M$'s assertion of 2/3rds? Such outrageous lies. Take it back to Redmond, AC, your talking points don't work anymore.
This guy thinks someone who prefers secure connections is more likely to be pwned.
No, he thinks that blaming the user is a joke when even M$ admits 2/3s of their customers are 0wned. It's a joke. Do you really think he's suggesting vendors screw all the customers who say they want a secure connection? If so, you admit it's trivial and that it's not the user's fault. The joke is on people who wrote him hate mail for stating the obvious: Windoze is a security dissaster and large percentages, if not all of them, are part of key logging botnets. Only they will take the article's suggestion seriously.
The point is that if someone is willing to run malware once then they're most likely already infected and part of a botnet.
The point is that it's not the user's fault because it's trivial for web site operators to 0wn user machines. When M$ themselves estimate 2/3 of all machines are compromised, no rational person can continue to blame the user.
When you pull your head out of M$ propaganda you will understand what the author is saying. You don't get the joke because you are a victim of double think and believe things that glaringly contradict each other.
The author is responding to hate mail he got for challenging the M$ party line that only idiots get 0wned.
He parodies the party line brilliantly by saying:
and then suggesting that vendors instantly 0wn anyone who says they want a secure connection. This is not a serious suggestion, it simply point out the absurdity of blaming the user for something others so easily and frequently do. Vendors are screwed and he knows it.
The author is also pointing out how insulting it is for M$ to continue to blame the user for M$ security problems. If M$ really believes this, they must also believe that 2/3rd of their customers are idiots who and have VD. Is there any other vendor on the planet that so casually insults their customers?
Amazingly enough, the general population still believes the M$ party line. I had this argument with a co-worker the other day. He so strongly believed that it's the user's fault that he could not accept estimates by Vint Cerf or Michael Dell as accurate. Stories of corporate network dissaster are similarly dissmissed as the fault of idiots at work. More amazing than the man's inability to take in new information was the temper tantrum he threw when calmly questioned and confronted with facts. M$'s own estimates will also bounce off his otherwise bright head because it would force him to conclude that there's either a 2/3rd chance that he's an idiot or worse - he's been wrong headed and vocal for years, which is the definition of an idiot. How does M$ build such loyalty while being so abusive? Windoze security is a oxymoron and it's time the public at large understood that.
Some companies "compete" that way. They break other people's things and conversations because they don't have anything better to offer.